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Everyone calls late 2025 a step change in agentic coding. It was. But the step wasn't up in intelligence, it was down in price. You didn't get a smarter model, you stopped rationing the one you already had.

How groups update when reality moves faster than identity can - or how they don't. AI is just the case study where it's happening fast enough to watch in real time.

Last week I wrote that the pure manager was structurally obsolete. This week ClickUp's CEO explained exactly why - and pointed at what replaces it.

Brian Armstrong declared the end of the pure manager. He's right. But the pure manager wasn't killed by AI - it was always a workaround.

"But LLMs are non-deterministic" is one of the most common objections to AI in production. It's usually aimed at the wrong thing.

The longest break from the keyboard I've taken since the 1990s. And somehow the most productive stretch of my career.

I just built my first Python app. I still don't know how to write Python.

AI is making implementation cheaper. That completely shifts where teams find leverage.

Adam Smith's pin factory returns—only now we're spinning up agents instead of hiring workers.

I love Cursor but I’ve recently switched to Claude Code (CLI) and I can’t see myself moving back anytime soon.